Herrljunga Municipality () is a

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Västra Götaland County Västra Götaland County () is a county or '' län'' on the western coast of Sweden. The county is the second most populous of Sweden's counties and it comprises 49 municipalities (''kommuner''). Its population of 1,616,000 amounts to 17% of S ...

in western

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. Its seat is located in the town of

Herrljunga Herrljunga () is a locality and the seat of Herrljunga Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 3,822 inhabitants in 2010. Overview The town grew up around a railway junction. From 1906 it had the status of a ''municipalsamhälle' ...

. The local government reform of 1952 formed two municipalities, Herrljunga and Gäsene, in the area. Before that the number was 22. In 1974 they were merged to form the present entity.

Localities

55% of the population live in built-up areas. The largest of them are: * Annelund * Fåglavik *

* Hudene *

Ljung Ljung and Annelund () is a locality situated in Herrljunga Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 1,215 inhabitants in 2020. The locality was formed by Statistics Sweden Statistics Sweden ( ; SCB, ) is the Swedish government ...

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Herrljunga Municipality's electoral districts in the

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sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics. In total there were 9,493 residents, including 7,313 Swedish citizens of voting age. 42.5% voted for the left coalition and 55.8% for the right coalition.

Politics

Since the 2022 election the municipal government is controlled by a majority consisting of the

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, Left Party, Centre Party and Liberals with Mats Palm of the Social Democrats as

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. The

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of Herrljunga has 34 seats.

References

External links

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Herrljunga Municipality
- Official site
Herrljunga Cider
- In Swedish, English and German
Herrljunga Cider UK Distributor
- In English {{authority control Municipalities of Västra Götaland County